November 1, 2022
Notes about this session
What is rainbowR?
Who is it for?
Since the last meet-up
Show and Tell
Connecting and brainstorming breakout
Back together
This session is confidential
etherpad document (link in chat)
operating under rainbowR Code of Conduct
those who identify as being a minority sexual orientation, i.e. those who are not straight/heterosexual
those who are not cisgender, i.e. those whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex
To our straight, cis friends: we very much appreciate your allyship and your support of rainbowR, e.g. by sharing our information and posts on social media and by telling your friends and colleagues about us.
launched a new website: https://rainbowr.netlify.app
written a new Code of Conduct
reopened the Slack group with sign-up form
launched the TidyRainbow project
revitalised the Twitter feed
gglgbtq package
47 new members in the Slack group (107 in total)
lots of new Twitter followers
lots of engagement with the TidyRainbow launch announcement tweet
very little activity on Slack, except for a few introductions in #welcome
have only posted/publicised one TidyRainbow dataset
would be good to have more people involved
regular zoom hangouts (monthly? quarterly?)
send out another TidyRainbow dataset, and continue to do so regularly (monthly?)
organise some kind of event on Slack to get people logging in and engaging in community there
Make a rainbowR blog post template, then encourage others to contribute to blog
ideas from the community
Some topics to discuss/note:
what would you like RainbowR to be, in order to best serve its community?
what kind of activities would you like RainbowR to run?
ideas for blog-posts
ideas for data sets for data-driven activism
would you like to contribute and, if so, how?
Anything else you’d like to add
Share ideas from the breakout room
Any questions?